at the end of the day
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) In summary; ultimately.
- 1991, Charles Krauthammer, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973561,00.html?iid=chix-sphere Why Arms Control Is Obsolete]," Time, 5 Aug.:
- Arms control was always something between a sham and a sideshow. . . . [A]t the end of the day, a democratic Russia integrated into the West becomes no more a nuclear threat to us than Britain or France.
- 2009, Levi Folk, "'Goldilocks' dollar is happy here ↗," Financial Post (Canada), 24 Feb. (retrieved 25 Feb. 2009):
- At the end of the day, it is commodities that will have the biggest impact on the Canadian dollar over the next year.
- 1991, Charles Krauthammer, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973561,00.html?iid=chix-sphere Why Arms Control Is Obsolete]," Time, 5 Aug.:
- (in summary; ultimately) ATEOTD, basically, essentially, in summary, in the end, to recap, to summarize, to sum up, when all is said and done; see also Thesaurus:in summary
- French: en fin de compte, au final, au bout du compte
- German: letzten Endes
- Italian: per ultima cosa, in fin dei conti
- Portuguese: no fim das contas
- Russian: в конце́ концо́в
- Spanish: al fin y al cabo, a fin de cuentas
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